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AbstractThis paper focuses on the individual perspective, as opposed to the institutional or operational one, towards the Fundamental Principles and their underpinning humanitarian values. It demonstrates the added value of this perspective, which goes beyond addressing challenges regarding the Fundamental Principles' understanding and application. By making the Principles and values come alive in peoples' behaviour, the individual perspective also enables Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers to inspire a change of mindset and behaviour towards a culture of non-violence and peace. Two tools created to this purpose, as well as their impact, are presented: (i) the Seven Skills for Seven Principles (747) framework, which unpacks the high-level Principles into more concrete and tangible components, values and intra- and interpersonal skills; and (ii) the Youth as Agents of Behavioural Change (YABC) initiative, which, using a non-cognitive learning approach, fosters a personal connection towards the Principles and increases participants' ability to role-model them.

The current international response to Non-Armed Conflict Disasters is often inadequate compared with the ideals that humanitarian organizations would like to reach. One of the possible ways to improve the ability of such organizations to meet these ideals is the clarification and development of an appropriate legal structure, which has yet to be created for crises that do not involve armed conflict. This article analyzes the existing legal frameworks for international response to disasters, with special attention to the legal challenges that humanitarian actors have faced in recent disaster operations. The article introduces the International Federation's project to develop the rules and principles of an International Disaster Response Law. This program, initiated in 2001, received a mandate in 2003 from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent to lead a collaborative effort involving various States, the UN, and other relevant bodies in the development of such a legal framework. W. A. Butler

People from lower socio-economic classes are confronted with several barriers that impede their access to health care. An important, though often forgotten barrier is embedded in the care-relationship. Differences in the social environment of health care workers and poor complicate the care-relationship. By means of in-depth interviews and focus groups with health care workers in the fields of primary and secondary antenatal and postnatal care and diabetes care we mapped their perception of poverty and of their care-relationship with intergenerational poor. Our results show that health care workers perceive the causes of poverty mainly on the individual level. When asked about the basic conditions for a good care-relationship health care workers stress the presence of trust and a fundamental attitude of relational equivalence, authenticity and respect. This ideal image has a stressfull relationship with the framework of individual guilt that puts the responsibility for a good care-relationship, at least partly, with the poor. Based on these results an educational program for health care workers has been developed.